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Electronic books are ideal for people who value the information contained in them, or who have vision problems, or who like to read on the subway, or who do not want other people to see how they are amusing themselves, or who have storage and clutter issues, but they are useless for people who are engaged in an intense, lifelong love affair with books. Books that we can touch; books that we can smell; books that we can depend on. ↗

— Joe Queenan

#books-about-books #ebooks #love

Only the really plain people know about love - the very fascinating ones try so hard to create an impression that they soon exhaust their talents. ↗

— Katharine Hepburn

#create #exhaust #fascinating #hard #impression

I think it's important that people think about what they are doing and that includes what they are eating. I am 61 now and attitudes towards drinking and driving have changed radically since I was a student. People change their notion of what is responsible. They will increasingly ask about the carbon content of their food. ↗

— Nicholas Stern

#am #ask #attitudes #carbon #change

What was interesting was talking to older gay men about what it was like being gay in the Eighties. ↗

— Dan Stevens

#being #eighties #gay #interesting #like

When he looked up at Annabel, he was just a man, looking at a woman, praying and hoping that she loved him the way he loved her. ↗

— Julia Quinn

#love

Why, Noah, do you know the word for vagina in every language?" "Because I’m European, and therefore more cultured than you. ↗

— Michelle Hodkin

#culture

The great thing about rock-n-roll is you realize the top of the mountain is big enough for more than one band. ↗

— Paul Stanley

#band #big #big enough #enough #great

The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time. ↗

— Abraham Lincoln

#about #best #comes #day #future

Women are only children of a larger growth. A man of sense only trifles with them, plays with them, humours and flatters them, as he does with a sprightly and forward child; but he neither consults them about, nor trusts them with, serious matters. ↗

— Philip Stanhope

#child #children #consults #does #flatters

Fantasy is totally wide open; all you really have to do is follow the rules you've set. But if you're writing about science, you have to first learn what you're writing about. ↗

— Octavia Butler

#fantasy #first #follow #learn #open